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CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, Vol 15, 14-17, Copyright © 1965 by American Cancer Society

Management of the Acute Leukemia Patient and Family

¹ Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, at The Children's Hospital and Director of Research, The Children's Cancer Research Foundation, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts.

The management of the patient with acute leukemia and his family constitutes an enormous challenge to physicians, nurses, technicians, social workers, family doctors, internists, or pediatricians—as well as to the institutions which have organized programs to do all that medicine, surgery, and laboratory science can do for the comfort, well-being, prolongation of life and (hopefully) cure of patients suffering from what is still a dread disease. The longer the remissions produced today by the use of the total antileukemic armamentarium and complete supportive therapy, the greater the socio-economic problems and the more compelling the need for specialized centers to assist the family doctor in the care of his patient.

The immediate goal must be prolongation of life—hopefully, good life. Everything that can be done to achieve this end must be provided until this goal is supplanted by attainment of the only adequate solution of the problem: eradication, prevention, and/or complete cure.